Twilight!

http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ This is a link to the “official” Twilight movie site with a really great trailor! Watch it and let me know if you would be interested in going with me and a couple of my other friends who are Twilight fans on November 21. If you don’t know, Twilight is the first book in Stephanie [...]

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Howl’s Moving Castle: Age, Gender, and Adventures in Self Image, Sunday 3PM, Sanford Room

This is my approximate recreation of the flyer the anime club on campus gave me to promote the screening and discussion of Howl’s Moving Castle tomorrow, Sunday, at 3 o’clock: Howl’s Moving Castle Sunday, October 26, 3pm in Sanford Room Discussion: Age, Gender, and Adventures in Self Image by the director of acclaimed film SPIRITED [...]

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Animation Film Festival on Campus

We have programmed an exciting collection of cutting-edge films and videos.  We will be screening these films in a series of 7:30 Tuesday night events in Albright Auditorium. Below you will find short blurbs that we are certain will entice you to join us at the FREE screenings, which will feature engaging follow-up discussions. Oct [...]

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Norwegian Nazi Zombie Movie

Below is a trailer I came across for a zombie movie made in Norway coming out next January. The trailer isn’t subtitled, but it’s still pretty interesting. The plot summary from the youtube site- “A group of eight friends drives to a cabin in northern Norway where German troops where slaughtered by angry locals living [...]

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Horror Film Series in Rochester

« Envisioning Russia: Four Mosfilm Masterworks from the Soviet Era Hal Ashby: The Perennial Misfit » The Horror! The Horror! 2008 <!– Published by Michael August 22nd, 2008 in Program Highlights. –> Get ready for your hair to stand on end. The Dryden’s perennial selection of blood-curdling horror movies will be offered Thursdays in October [...]

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Original Metropolis V.s Anime Metropolis

Melody J. Acosta Blog Post 1 9/21/08 Ok so I just finished watching the anime version of metropolis and I thought it was so completely different from the original one. For one, the anime metropolis was a little more futuristic having robot workers instead of the lower classed human workers that the original metropolis had. [...]

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“Night of the Living Dead”

Night of the Living Dead produced in 1968 and directed by George Romero is a sci-fi horror thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.  After watching it tonight I learned that it was originally going to be titled “Night of the Flesh eaters,” but that was deemed too gory by the distributors.  [...]

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Metropolis

Alex Bryce 9/16/08 Blog Post #2 First, I just wanted to say that Metropolis was the first black-and-white silent movie I’ve ever seen! Because I watch TV and movies with subtitles/closed captions, I had no problem reading the dialogue and the plot summaries on the screen. However, it was slightly disorientating not to be able [...]

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“Horror Movies and ‘Torture Porn’”

I just found a really interesting blog post (after following a link from a blog post by another blogger I follow semi-regularly).  You can find it at http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/horror-movies-a.html The author, Elizabeth Black, comments that “There is something cathartic about a good horror movie. The suspense and terror are often accompanied by scenes of either blatant [...]

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